all told

verb

simple past tense and past participle of tell.

Idioms

all told, counting everyone or everything; in all: There were 50 guests all told.

Related forms

well-told, adjective

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all told

—*adv*
	(sentence modifier) taking every one into account; in all: we were seven all told

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told (təʊld)

—vb
1.	the past tense and past participle of tell

—*adj*
2.	See all told

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Word Origin & History

told

past tense of tell, from O.E. talde, past tense of tellan (see tell (v.)).

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Idioms & Phrases

all told

Added up, in summation, as in The ferry will hold 80 passengers all told, or All told, his proposal makes some good points. This idiom, first recorded in 1850, uses the verb tell in the sense of "count."

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"A turkey is more occult and awful than all the angels and archangels. In so far as God has partly revealed to us an angelic world, he has partly told us what an angel means. But God has never told us what a turkey means. And if you go and stare at a live turkey for an hour or two, you will find by the end of it that the enigma has rather increased than diminished."

-Gilbert Keith Chesterton

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